Articulating Powered Armor
Well, I need to see if a passive external skeleton will work before I start casting aluminum. I’m not sure how I should mock this up, but the joints look like a good place to start.
Of the 14 main joints, 5 are straight hinges. Two have loose hinges or floating axes of articulation. Two utilize ball races or interlocking flanges to put the wearer through the joint, in conjunction with sliding hinges. Two are freely rotational with loads of axial play. The two hip joints are either ball joints or universal joints, and the torso rests more or less loosely atop the pelvic armor.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am
if you pull this off, i’de deffanatly want to buy one. think of all the cosplay awards you can win?
February 24th, 2009 at 11:02 am
Have you worked out how the hinge motion will work on the arms????I’ve been looking at this for a while and it seems to be a series of hinges running down the arm.
Are you making this suit as a custume or as a working mock up of what it should be??????
July 10th, 2009 at 2:04 am
could you use some free moving actuators for the torso to waist join rather than taking the weight on your shoulders(if thats what you meant by floating)